What's ON at your Library – December/January 2017/18

Reflecting on a busy 2017 at Tauranga City Libraries Joanna Thomas - Manager: Libraries What strikes me, as I reflect on the year, is how we are developing our libraries into ‘community hubs’. What does this mean beyond a buzz word and lots of people using libraries?

The Library’s mission is to support learning, inspiration, innovation and connection.

We connect with our community through programmes, events and outreach and the provision of computer services and help for those who don’t have technology or skills.

Imagine what a life changer the library service is to those who never have money to buy books; well, we see many in our city who are in the same boat with technology. So the three things all complement each other: our programmes, our digital services and our traditional borrowing of books and providing information.

Traditional library lending is going strong in Tauranga, with 1.6 million items issued in the last year from 1.3 million visits to our libraries.

Interestingly, 1.3 million people also ran and walked on our iconic Mauao, which is open

24/7! That must mean a lot of locals enjoy both the Library and the Mount, meaning many of us are both brain and body fit. To help families we increased all our community library hours, with Mount Maunganui Library’s hours recently extending to 9:30-4pm on Saturdays.

2017 has seen the library involved with many partner organisations and volunteers.

Our fabulous volunteers have helped hundreds of people with CV writing, code clubs, book clubs, children’s programmes and genealogy.

Through the Art Gallery and Friends of the Library most schools in Tauranga are able to visit our children’s programmes. There were 17,000 participants in children’s programmes for the year. One great example is Te Wharekura o Mauao, who partnered with Tauranga Libraries on a bilingual reading incentive programme delivered by a librarian at the kura.

From the hundreds of comments, compliments (and a few complaints) I get across my desk I know one thing for sure – the library means something different to every user. Keep telling us what it means to you. And tell the Tauranga Council as they seek everyone’s opinion on the proposed new central library next year…

Mere Kirihimete Joanna

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Swells on the Shelves Surf Report by Paul Cuming Tauranga and Mount Maunganui enjoy some great swells during the year, but when there is no surf, the library can cater for your flat-day reading. With the (still) approaching summer months, your trip to the beach just got a whole lot more stoke to it, if you are going via your local library shelves! Life on the ocean waves has always been a difficult feeling to articulate on paper, but these five authors have tapped in to the spirit of surfing with the following titles.

1. Kook – Peter Heller Kook means ‘beginner’ in surf lingo, but by the end of this epic Mexican roadie account, Heller is far from it. An, at times, absurd look at surfing from Southern California to Baja, complete with bad guys, dodgy surfmobiles and eccentricities to the max.

Stoke rating: 2. Barbarian Days – William Finnegan William Finnegan began life as a Californian, but moved to Hawaii as a child. Surfing has taken a front seat in his life ever since, and this Pulitzer Prize winning read transcends the sport. It has been hailed as one of the reads of the year on any bookshelf.

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4 3. Just Add Water – Clay Marzo Those in the know will know Marzo! YouTube sensation, Surfers Healing worker, competitive champion surfer and SUPERbrand Surfboard shaper. He is also autistic. An inspired read for those folk who have an autistic and Aspergian in their family that may find water to be their only true peaceful refuge.

Stoke rating: 4. MP Untold – Sean Doherty In a nod to our dear neighbours over the ditch, who produce the odd good surfer, you are invited in to the world of Michael Peterson, a real flawed genius who turned the surfing world on its head. Family and friends delve deeper than a biography could and the result is a fiery compilation from the longest-serving editor of Tracks magazine.

Stoke Rating: Keep an eye out for Phil Jarratt’s Life of Brine, which will make an appearance soon on the shelves at your library! It’s bound to be a read!

BEST OF 2017 - ACCORDING TO US Diane’s Picks of 2017 Over the past few months I have enjoyed reading a variety of books (from debuts, to translations and non-fiction) that I can escape into for a while.

Portrait is a little gem of a read, How to be Champion is a naughty, laugh-out-loud read and Our House is Definitely Not in Paris is a great holiday read.

The Portrait Antoine Laurain

How to be Champion Sarah Millican

Our House is Certainly Not in Paris

Daniel’s Picks of 2017 I’ve spent most of 2017 looking back, reading classics like High Fidelity, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and A Room with a View. I did, however, catch up with the excellent My Favourite Thing Is Monsters.

I’m happy to recommend The Big Sick and The Meyerowitz Stories as I’m certain they haven’t gotten the attention they deserve.

My Favourite Thing Is Monsters

The Big Sick Kumail Nanjiani

The Meyerowitz Stories Adam Sandler

Paula’s Picks of 2017 I spent most of 2017 discovering a new genre in the library – ‘New Adult’ – by reading books such as Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover, From Ashes by Molly McAdams and Twisted Perfection by Abbi Glines.

Maybe Someday Colleen Hoover

From Ashes Molly McAdams

Twisted Perfection Abbi Glines

PROGRAMMES ADULT COLOURING Tauranga Library

Wed. 27 December at 10.30 - 11.30am Wed. 31 January at 10.30 - 11.30am

Papamoa Library

Thurs. 14 December at 10.30 - 11.30am Thurs. 11 January at 10.30 - 11.30am

Greerton Library

Tues. 12 December at 10.30 - 11.30am Tues. 9 January at 10.30 - 11.30am

Book Clubs continued

Mount Maunganui Friends of the Library Book Group December - In recess January - In recess

CARD MAKING CLUB Tauranga Library

Wed. 13 December at 10.30 - 11.30am Wed. 10 January, 10.30 - 11.30am

BOOK CLUBS Tauranga Library Adult Book Club Wednesday, 20 December at 10 – 11am, 11 – 12pm and 5.30 – 6.30pm Wed. 17 January at 10 – 11am, 11 – 12pm, 5.30 – 6.30pm

Greerton Library Greerton Library Book Group December - In recess January - In recess Children’s After-School Book Club December - In recess January - In recess Greerton Tween Book Club December - In recess January - In recess

Papamoa Library Teen Book Club December - In recess January - In recess Friends of the Library Book Group Wednesday, 20 December at 10am Wednesday, 17 January at 10am

CODE CLUB Tauranga Library

Tuesdays at 4 – 5pm, during term time Registrations essential

Greerton Library Beginner Group (8 - 10yrs) Wednesdays at 3.30 - 4.40pm during term time. Registrations essential.

Beginner Group (open) Saturdays at 9.30 - 10.40am during term time. Registrations essential.

CV WRITING CLINICS Tauranga Library

Contact your library for times.

Papamoa Library

Contact your library for times.

Greerton Library

Contact your library for times.

DIGITAL SKILLS COURSE

GENEALOGY HELP

Registration packs available at your library and on our website: http://library.tauranga.govt.nz/learning

Clinic at Tauranga Library

Every Friday between 10am – 12.30pm Please phone 07 577 7177 to book.

Drop-in help at Tauranga Library

EMPLOY NZ CLINIC

Friday, 15 December from 1.30 – 4pm Friday, 19 January from 1.30 – 4pm

On call help at Tauranga Library

Every Thursday between 10 - 11am

Give one of our genealogists a call to negotiate a time that suits.

Brian: 027 629 2273 Olive: 543 0382 Joy: 575 5820

FRIDAY FOSSICKS

Drop In Clinics at Papamoa Library

Tauranga Library

4th Friday of month from 10 – 12pm

Tauranga Library

Friday, 1 December from 1.15 – 2pm Secret handshakes: the archives of lodges in Tauranga.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MEET

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET BANKING Greerton Library

Tuesdays between 10.30am - 12.30pm Enquiries to Westpac, Greerton Ph: 577 3103

Greerton Library - General Meeting December - In recess January - In recess

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Tauranga Library

STEPPING UP DIGITAL SKILLS CLASSES Greerton Library

Every Tuesday & Friday, from 1 - 3pm Book online at www.steppingup.nz

Every Friday between 12 – 2pm

Mount Maunganui Library

Every Friday between 11.30 – 1.30pm

Papamoa Library

Every Wednesday between 10 – 12pm

For more information about our programmes and events visit: http://library.tauranga.govt.nz Programme information is accurate at the date of publication. Please be aware that some changes may occur.

TODDLER TIME

Papamoa Library

Wednesdays,10.30am during term time

Tauranga Library

Special Events: December 6 - Christmas Celebration

Special Event: December 5 - Christmas Celebration

Mount Maunganui Library

Greerton Library

Special Events: December 7 - Christmas Celebration

Tuesdays, 10.30am during term time

Wednesdays, 10.30am during term time

Thursdays,10.30am during term time

Special Events: December 6 - Christmas Celebration

EVENTS CHRISTMAS HARP MUSIC*

MR YIPADEE

Greerton Library

Papamoa Community Centre

Monday 4 December at 12.30 - 1.30pm

Tauranga Library

Saturday 9 December from 10.30 - 11.30am

Tuesday 12 December at 12.30 - 1.30pm

DIGITAL SKILLS SEMINARS Papamoa Library

Introduction to Facebook Thursday 7 December at 12.30 - 1pm Introduction to online books etc.

Thursday 14 December at 12.30 - 1pm Introduction to genealogy databases Thursday 21 December at 12.30 - 1pm

SUMMER READING PROGRAMMES Wild About Reading (ages 5 - 10) Enrolments begin at 9.30am, Friday 8 December Finale - Thursday 25 January, 5.45 - 7.15pm at Memorial Park

Teen Mean Reads (ages 11 - 18) Enrolments begin 9.30am, Friday 8 December Finale Party - Tuesday 23 January, 5.30 - 7.30pm at Tauranga Library

Please register for these events by calling 07 577 7177 or by emailing library@tauranga.govt.nz All events are free of charge unless stated otherwise. *No registration required

One of our newer databases is AccessScience, the online version of what

was published in book form as the 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The 11th edition was in 2012, and they used to publish a Yearbook to keep their information up-to-date. The advantage of the online version, of course, is that material can be added straight away – and searching can be far more efficient than ploughing through an Index that occupies a whole volume. Notice, for instance, that at the end of September there is already an entry for Hurricane Harvey.

There is the usual range of tools for use and re-use of the content – citing, printing and emailing. Cleverly, the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for the article includes the authentication address for Tauranga City Libraries’ AccessScience subscription.

N.B: DOI = A digital object identifier (DOI) is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency (the International DOI Foundation) to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.

The publisher assigns a DOI when an article is published and made available electronically.

They also publish news items. Does anyone remember Thor Heyerdahl? The Norwegian adventurer sailed a balsa-log raft from Peru into the Pacific in 1947 to demonstrate that ancient civilisations could have spread their knowledge by travel. This was presented as a possible route for the kumara to arrive in the Pacific. This never seemed to match the available linguistic and archaeological evidence, and now DNA studies suggest the travel may have started from the other end of the journey…

It is not a long item, but is enriched by links to other articles and briefings in the Encyclopedia, plus links out to original scientific literature that provides substantial background and further reading on the topic.

As good science reporting should, the article goes on to describe the need for further research, so the results can be replicated and validated. But given the revival of awareness of Polynesian navigation in recent years, it doesn’t seem impossible…